[Dixielandjazz] Great praise for "blivet!"

[Richard Broadie]

Bill - exactly how does one become familiar with such esoteric terms as
"blivet" without subscribing to the djml?  Ain't this a great list or what?
Dick B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <DWSI at aol.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 9, Issue 32


>
> >Dan Spink asks:
> >
> >IF God plays 5 string banjo, how does he tune a black hole?
>
> Nobody knows!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill "Not an astrophysicist" Gunter
>
> ps - "holes" are supposed to be empty spaces from which material has been
> removed. Yet a "black hole" is defined as something so densly packed with
> matter that nothing (not even light) can escape from it once it has passed
> beyond the event horizon. "Black Hole" has become the defining term but
> wouldn't it make more sense to call it a "Black Blivet?"
>
> ps #2 - A "blivet" is defined as 10 pounds of s--t stuffed into a 5 pound
> bag.
>
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